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Quotes About Street

I was never good at school and was always fighting in the streets.
~ Sammo Hung
I love filming in London. In New York, every street is familiar because you have seen it in a movie. They mythologise their own city. You're forever trying to get down streets that have been blocked off because of shooting. In London, they don't put up with it; they're grumpy.
~ Douglas Hodge
We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.
~ Bob Cousy
I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.
~ Brownie McGhee
My body looks like 30 but my face looks like 50. But I cannot walk bare-chested in the streets. I like to do these movies to challenge myself physically.
~ Jean-Claude Van Damme
When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.
~ R. Kelly
I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had taken me out of my squad car and gave me a show, I would've been terrible. But on 'Springer,' the spotlight was on Jerry and I got to grow up within the show.
~ Steve Wilkos
I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.
~ Simon McBurney
People use mobile phones in this very distracting environment where you probably don't have time to watch a 30-minute film, but you might have time to look at a film for a minute and learn something you didn't expect while you walk on the streets.
~ Isabella Rossellini
I started playing football on the streets; I grew up playing football on the streets with my friends, and that's why I was brought up the way I was. That's the school I had - the street football.
~ Diego Costa
A street is a story in asphalt - so it's a paradox that the streets are the one place where the movies play fast and loose with continuity, something to which L.A. streets lend themselves as naturally as does the city's psyche.
~ Steve Erickson
Where most kids play stickball and hockey, I'd walk down the streets with two sets of boxing gloves and knock on my friend's door and see if he wanted to box. There were boxing gyms on every corner.
~ Eddie Alvarez
I grew up in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. At the time I was growing up with my father - before it was gentrified - it was a very rough neighborhood. He felt that if I got into or started embracing the rap culture, I would be one step closer to being on the streets.
~ Kerby Jean-Raymond
My dad and his sister, who is no longer with us, used to dance on the streets for money. They had nothing.
~ Courtney A. Kemp
I am on social media to connect with my fans, but when I'm out on the streets, I don't even wear make-up. I'm in my chappals, on my own, and I like that.
~ Radhika Apte
I grew up playing basketball on the streets of New York City, and it was very, very rough, and I started playing in the NBA in the same way.
~ Metta World Peace
Mobb Deep is a street-rap group. We from off the streets.
~ Prodigy
My football comes from the streets.
~ Isco
I don't like to open my mouth a lot because, I'll be honest with you, man, I come from the streets.
~ Henry Cejudo
I was always playing on the streets with my friends until I was 15 or 16 and I wanted to do things with my skills that were exciting.
~ Virgil van Dijk
I go by 'Papi' on the streets.
~ Roy Choi
I will not allow continued planned street violence between rival factions to take place on the streets of Portland.
~ Ted Wheeler
When I'm in the studio, I'm strictly thinking about the beats, the rhymes and the song. The decision I make once the songs are created, and there's a barcode put on the package, and I'm out there in the street selling it, those decisions as a businessman are different than the creative decisions you make.
~ Talib Kweli
One name always stands out when it comes to actors taking on the monsters of our nightmares - Robert Englund. In the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' series, Englund kept us awake as night with a striped shirt and his special glove.
~ Rob Manuel